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J. P. RUGABER, WestfieUl, Pa. 

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. H 



Section 1. This Society shall be known as the 
Physicians and Surgeons Co-operative Association, of 
Westfield, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania. 

Sec. 2, The object of this Association shall be to 
protect its members from unjust claims made on them ; 
and to assist them in the collection of their just claims 
for services. 

Sec. 3. The managing officers of this Association 
shall be a physician and a lawyer, and shall be known 
as "Collecting Agency," and for the present shall be 
composed of Dr. A. L. Bottum and Hush Culver, Esq., 
of Westfield, Pennsylvania- 

Sec. 4. Any physician or surgeon in good standing 
may become a member of this Association by subscrib- 
ing his name to these articles and pa} 7 ing into the agen- 
cy the sum of ten dollars, who shall during the con- 
tinuance of his membership pay annually into said 
agency the sum of ten dollars as dues — which sum 
they agree to pay into said agency in consideration of 
the benefits to be derived from the Association, and to 
pay the persons composing such agency for their servi- 
ces to be performed by them as hereinafter stated. 

Sec. 5. It is the right and it shall be the duty of 
each member of this Association to attend profession- 
ally at all reasonable times, on stich persons as may 
call for professional services except as hereinafter stat- 
ed, who snail be entitled to receive from his patients 
pay for such services. 

Sec. 6. If the patient for whom such services shall 
be rendered, shall not within a reasonable time pay for 
the same, the person rendering such service shall serve 
upon such delinquent patient a notice in writing that 
unless the bill is paid within thirty days from the ser- 
vice of such notice, that he will report their name and 
amount of his bill to the collecting agency for publica- 
tion and collection. 



Sec. 7. After the publication of the name of said 
delinquent, no member of this Association shall be at 
liberty to consult or treat him, or her, until said debt 
is paid or secured. Such pay or security may be re- 
ceived by the member whose services are desired. The 
member taking such pa}' and security shall immediate- 
ly deliver the same to the person who performed the 
service, and shall also repeat such fact to the collecting 
agency. , . 

Sec. 8. It shall be the dut} 7 of the persons composing- 
such collecting agency in consideration of the money so 
paid to them: 

1st. To keep an office for the transaction of the 
business of the Association which, until further notice, 
shall be in the village of Westfield, Pennsylvania. 

2nd. To keep a book in which shall be entered at 
large these articles of Association, to which, and in 
which, each member of the Association shall subscribe 
their names respectively. 

3rd. To keep a book in which the names of all 
delinquent patients shall be entered with the amount 
of the bills reported, and in which he shall also enter 
the fixed disposition of any delinquents case. 

4th. To make and cause to be printed at the end 
of each month the names of all delinquent patients, 
their residence, and amount of their bill; and shall 
mail to each member of the association a copy of said 
report. 

5th. To make annually, at the end of each year, a 
full report of the proceedings of the association, in which 
they shall state the name and residence of each member 
of the Association ; the amount of money received, and 
from what source ; the name and residence of each de- 
linquent patient, and the amount of his or her bill , the 
name of each patient from whom he has made collection, 
the amount collected, and the disposition of the proceeds 
thereof. 

6th When directed by any member of the Asso- 
ciation they shall proceed to collect any bill against any 
delinquent patient, but at the expense of the member 



giving direction, and any money collected from such 
delinquent patient or patients to be paid by them to the 
member who performed the service, after deducting 
their fees and disbursements. 

Sec. 9. In case any member of the Association shall 
neglect to give notice to the delinquent and report a 
delinquent patient as provided in section six, or in case 
any member of the Association shall treat any delin- 
quent patient after his name has been reported to the 
collection agency before the debt is paid or secured as 
provided in section seven, he shall forfeit to, and shall 
pay into the collecting agency the sum of Ten Dollars. 

Sec. 10. In case the members of the collecting 
agency shall fail to perform the duties for it to perform 
as set forth in section 8, the number composing said 
agency shall fo feit their office, and shall on request of 
any number of members, not less than one-half of all, 
in writing, turn over the books and papers relating to 
the Association, to such persons as shall be designated 
by alike number of members, to conduct the business 
of said Association. 

Sec. 11. To the true and faithful performanjce of 
the conditions contained in foregoing articles of Associ- 
ation, we bind ourselves firmly by subscribing our 
names and affixing our seals heieto. 




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